My film debut. When Dennis Christopher broke his arm, two weeks before production began, The producers of this Great Performance epic scoured the globe for someone else to play young Sam Clemens in Mark Twain’s autobiographical tale of his years as a young riverboat pilot. They found me. It was an amazing experience that I will treasure as long as …

Yes, it’s Spring Break, folks! From what I’ve been told over the years, well over a couple of dozen people between the ages of 33 and 45 have fond memories of this movie. It wasn’t a huge blockbuster by today’s standards, but considering the production budget was, as I recall, 1.6 million, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures, it did …